BetterThanTheRest

Odds are, I probably already bought today's Shirt Woot... hahaha. I <3 Threadless :D If you need discounts for TL, just PM me! I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH THREADLESS, I DO NOT WORK FOR THEM, I DO NOT REALLY CARE ABOUT THEM. I JUST LIKE GOOD LOOKING DESIGNER SHIRTS AND I LIKE PAYING GOOD PRICES !!!

isawhat

NightGhost

I like this alot. It has both a retro (cut my teeth on SI) and a modern look, but what really impresses me is the nearly seamless interweaving of so many different elements. It looks like building - no - it's a futuristic computer screen. It's got meteors - no those are eyes! It's a mask - no, it's the sky. Brilliant!

coriolanuskid

strange coincidence that I was just now reading a book that opens with this passage:

"Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Kelvin, one of the best known and most respected physicists at that time, commented that “only two small clouds” remained on the horizon of knowledge in physics. In other words, there were, in Kelvin’s view, only two sources of confusion in our otherwise complete understanding of material reality—the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment, which failed to detect the existence of a hypothetical substance called the ether, and the inability of electromagnetic theory to predict the distribution of radiant energy at different frequencies emitted by an idealized “radiator” called the black body. These problems seemed so “small” that some established physicists were encouraging those contemplating graduate study in physics to select other fields of scientific study where there was better opportunity to make original contributions to scientific knowledge. What Lord Kelvin could not have anticipated was that efforts to resolve these two anomalies would lead to relativity theory and quantum theory, or to what came to be called the “new” physics.

What is most intriguing about Kelvin’s metaphor for our purposes is that it is visual. We “see,” it implies, physical reality through physical theory, and the character of that which is seen is analogous to a physical horizon which is uniformly bright and clear. Obstacles to this seeing, the “two clouds,” are likened to visual impediments which will disappear when better theory allows us to see through, or beyond, them to the luminous essence which explains and eliminates them."

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